This volume provides an up-to-date and accessible guide to the diversity of current thinking on Imperial Germany.

• Offers a historiographical overview, spanning more than a century of works on the German Empire
• Guides readers through the main approaches, from 'personalist' to 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist'
• Presents varying perspectives on gender, cultural history, foreign relations, colonialism, and war
• Explores the controversial historical reputations of Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm II
• Reflects the wide range of opinions on Imperial Germany held by historians today